A TEENAGER broke down in tears as she told jurors how she tried to save two-year-old nephew Josh Berrill when he stepped out into a busy Birmingham road.

A TEENAGER broke down in tears as she told jurors how she tried to save two-year-old nephew Josh Berrill when he stepped out into a busy Birmingham road.

Distraught Millie Robinson, aged 16, said at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday that she was walking up Burney Lane, near her home in Alum Rock, with Josh running alongside her.

She told a hushed courtroom how she lost sight of Josh, then recalled the horrific moment the car hit them - and the frantic search that followed.

Millie said: "Within two seconds of me seeing the white car up the road Josh took his first step into the road and within a second I was at his side.

"I screamed at him to come out of the road, but he started laughing and thought it was a game so took two more steps into the road.

"I ran round to sweep him up with my arms and as my arms touched just round his waist I felt the impact of the car at the back of my legs.

"My next vision was me lying on the back windscreen and I thought I had gone over the back of the car.

"When I was lying in the gutter I remember looking round and I realised what had happened straight away.

"Then I looked round and saw my shoes and Josh's shoes on the floor.

"As the car carried on I couldn't see him anymore. People came out of their houses and they were saying just look in the gardens and see where he was."

Millie added: "Nobody had any idea where he had gone."

Josh's body was found near a paper recycling bin outside the Ward End pub after he had been dragged for 354 metres underneath a white Toyota MR2 driven by Mohammed Afahan Hussain, said David Jones, prosecuting.